New Temple Baptist Church

New Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2633 Wharton Street in Philadelphia, PA 19146. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 239 Baptist congregations in the city.

2633 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19146

New Temple Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,509 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Pennsylvania — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.

Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.

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The community around New Temple Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,600 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 33.5% (20.5–47.0%)
  • Unemployment: 9.8% (3.8–15.7%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.

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